Dutch English Club Butt Flintlock Musket

Muskets of this pattern were often exchanged or traded for fur
pelts and other commodities.

Circa 1750 Dutch/English New York Colonial Fur Trade Club Butt
Flint-lock Musket (single-shot/ muzzle-loading/ black powder/ ball
ammunition) By 1750, England had consolidated an empire known as
Great Britain." On the southern frontier of its American colonies,
agriculturally-oriented Georgia rounded out the original thirteen.
All of the southern colonies were agrarian in nature. In the
northwest, the frontier of French Canada was moving toward the
Great Lakes. Meanwhile, the settled British north was becoming
industrialized. This different growth was due to unique social,
cultural, and physical environments. New England was able to
manufacture firearms because of its social organization, cultural
technology, and physical resources. The display gun was produced in
a central British colony for similar reasons. Made for Native
American fur trading, these guns armed the natives, but also helped
create an industry that would aid the United States' fervor for
independence." --Dr. William L. Roberts, THE AMERICAN LIBERTY
COLLECTION; #15